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Boreal forests represent an important carbon sink and, therefore, significantly contribute to climate change mitigation. Tree-ring width series of boreal species reflect climate variation at the moment of tree-ring formation but also lagged climatic ef...

Biological invasions are a major threat to biodiversity and cause economic damage worth billions of dollars every year. Processes that drive plant invasions involve multiple steps, from introduction, establishment, survival, persistence, dispersal and ...

Most plastics are currently recycled by mechanical recycling, i.e., melting and remolding plastic products. However, as plastics contain various additives, this process leads to their interaction and subsequent undesirable properties in the end product...

Bulk metallic glasses lack long-range order characteristics of their counterpart crystalline alloys. The unique atomic ordering makes metallic glasses very attractive for structural applications due to their large elastic strain, high strength, and har...

Man has always needed water for his life and therefore settled near rivers. They have not only used the water resources, but have also changed them according to their needs. Old maps and aerial photographs show how rivers have changed their course over...

Petroleum hydrocarbons have many applications and therefore belong among the most common pollutants in the environment. A perspective "green" remediation method is phytoremediation using energy crops, where the plant contributes to soil purification an...

Electrocoagulation is a very interesting and promising method, which, in specific cases, can be used as an alternative route to the most common water treatment technology, so-called chemical coagulation. Electrocoagulation effectiveness and perspective...

The research on the possibilities of growing energy crop miscanthus in marginal (unsuitable for agriculture) soils at the Faculty of Environment has been carried out for several years. During that time, it has, among others, proven that this plant can ...

Construction of geochemical maps of risk element concentrations in soils and finding places, where soils were contaminated by anthropogenic activities, can seem like routine tasks. However, the routine lies in only almost automated production of a colo...

In the Krkonoše Mountains there is a glacial relic of otherwise a very abundant woody species in the northern tundra, the dwarf shrub crowberry (Empetrum nigrum). Although it is a very tiny shrub, it forms rings like trees. It is thus a witness to envi...